The 70's and 80's in Ireland

Hotblack Desiato

the purple tin wrote: »

Going in to the video shop to rent a fillum or two. There were small local shops before Xtravision came along. Browsing the shelves trying to work out if a fillum would any good by the box cover.

Blueys under the counter, probably, too. I dunno as we didn't get a video until the 1990 world cup...

cj maxx wrote: »

Nah that's not the 80's.
That was just your house I'm afraid.

It was a lot of houses.

Though the cane was amply used as discipline in national school . Bamboo sticks, the square trim from a desk and a slap were all used to 'discipline' me . It completely backfired though.

Metre sticks and Perri rulers. The teachers used to get the latter free after buying X boxes of crisps to flog to the kids.
Kids used to detest Perri crisps because of those rulers - outside of the monopoly they had selling crisps in school (imagine that, today!) no kid would buy Perri crisps in "real life".
Worst marketing move ever.

imme wrote: »

https://brandnewretro.ie/2017/02/08/citizens-of-dublin-1985/

Here are some Dubs from 35 years ago

Some amount of complete gobshytes around in those days thinking they were famous!

the purple tin

It was later than the 80s, textspeak or txtspk.
When mobiles were becoming popular, ejits would send texts with all the vowels removed like 'hw r u? r u gng fr pnts?'
So cringey looking back on it. Thank God it died out after a few years.

ohnonotgmail

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Blueys under the counter, probably, too. I dunno as we didn't get a video until the 1990 world cup...




It was a lot of houses.



Metre sticks and Perri rulers. The teachers used to get the latter free after buying X boxes of crisps to flog to the kids.
Kids used to detest Perri crisps because of those rulers - outside of the monopoly they had selling crisps in school (imagine that, today!) no kid would buy Perri crisps in "real life".
Worst marketing move ever.




Some amount of complete gobshytes around in those days thinking they were famous!

That Paul Webb bloke was DJ Willie O'DJ with the Rubber Bandits

Kermit.de.frog

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branie2

mikemac2 wrote: »

I'd like to buy co...co...co....cotton wool

There was a roaring trade in cotton wool in those days

combs as well

Count Down

fryup wrote: »

it was mayhem, typical of the laxed attitude at the time...health & safety?? pfft you would have been laughed at at the mere mention of it

here are so more pics from that shambolic night, you had spectators right on top of the italian bench, not to mention on side of the pitch...an absolute joke...god knows what the italians thought of us after that shambles

I was there too. I was supposed to meet a girl from work at the entrance to the terrace but she was delayed by the crowds. I didn't bother waiting for her and went in.
Met her next day at work and asked her how she'd got on. She said she managed to get in about 10 minutes before kick off and got a good vantage point. All was well until Ireland scored, when she nearly got crushed to death, or worse. She spent the rest of the match praying that Ireland wouldn't score again!
An Italian journalist, referring to the poor state of the pitch, remarked after the match that "There was more grass on the terraces than on the pitch!":D

Edgware

Count Down wrote: »

I was there too. I was supposed to meet a girl from work at the entrance to the terrace but she was delayed by the crowds. I didn't bother waiting for her and went in.
Met her next day at work and asked her how she'd got on. She said she managed to get in about 10 minutes before kick off and got a good vantage point. All was well until Ireland scored, when she nearly got crushed to death, or worse. She spent the rest of the match praying that Ireland wouldn't score again!
An Italian journalist, referring to the poor state of the pitch, remarked after the match that "There was more grass on the terraces than on the pitch!":D

Like the AC Milan players giving out when they played Athlone Town in St. Mels Park that there was only one mirror in the dressing room!
F.Y.I. .It was a 0-0 draw with John Minnock missing the most famous penalty in the clubs history. Athlone lost 3-0 at San Siro, three late goals

fryup

didn't Galway UTD's have a euro fixture that had to be played in a field in connemara ?

Hangdogroad

fryup wrote: »

it was mayhem, typical of the laxed attitude at the time...health & safety?? pfft you would have been laughed at at the mere mention of it

here are so more pics from that shambolic night, you had spectators right on top of the italian bench, not to mention on side of the pitch...an absolute joke...god knows what the italians thought of us after that shambles

Those pictures look like they're from an outdoor music festival in Lisdoonvara rather than an international soccer match.

Charles Babbage

Edgware wrote: »

As the song goes "the border is a way of life"

I know people in Dundalk who have online bank accounts North and South and have built up a nice sum of money just by transferring each way depending on currency rates.
Handy way to make money when you have no immediate demand on the cash.

Whereas nowadays you can just use Revolut.

Babooshka

the beer revolu wrote: »

I wish I could say the same.
We had a primary school teacher who thought he could beat knowledge into children.

Maths tables were tested every morning with anyone who made a mistake lined up to receive a stick, hard, across the fingers.

I would spend hours with family members learning the tables but the sheer terror of the moment meant that I mostly made mistakes and had to line up for punishment.

To this day, my mental arithmetic is terrible and I lay the blame firmly at the feet of Mr. O' Leary from St. Anthony's boys school, Ballinlough.

I never recall being beaten over disciplinary issues.

Same man was extremely religious and pious but seemed to take pleasure from beating children.

Some prick. Dead now, I assume. I often fantasised about intimidating him as an old man.

He wasn't the only one. He sounds like Joseph Divine of The Oblates School in Inchicore, exact same b*stard. Sorry we both went through that.

Nigel Fairservice

the beer revolu wrote: »

I wish I could say the same.
We had a primary school teacher who thought he could beat knowledge into children.

Maths tables were tested every morning with anyone who made a mistake lined up to receive a stick, hard, across the fingers.

I would spend hours with family members learning the tables but the sheer terror of the moment meant that I mostly made mistakes and had to line up for punishment.

To this day, my mental arithmetic is terrible and I lay the blame firmly at the feet of Mr. O' Leary from St. Anthony's boys school, Ballinlough.

I never recall being beaten over disciplinary issues.

Same man was extremely religious and pious but seemed to take pleasure from beating children.

Some prick. Dead now, I assume. I often fantasised about intimidating him as an old man.

I think I had the same teacher as you in the same school. This was in the post corporal punishment days though in the early 90s but the guy would have been in the school during those times. He was a short guy with a menacing air.

the beer revolu

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I think I had the same teacher as you in the same school. This was in the post corporal punishment days though in the early 90s but the guy would have been in the school during those times. He was a short guy with a menacing air.

I'd have thought that he's have retired by the 90s - I had him at the end of the 70s - but maybe, he was younger than I remembered. I had him in 5th class and I recall that when we were in 6th class, corporal punishment was outlawed.

That didn't stop us getting clatters and digs from teachers in secondary school, though. It just meant that formal physical punishment was replaced with detention. I wonder how long it took before people started taking seriously the fact that teachers were no longer allowed to hit children?

Hotblack Desiato

The only teacher we had who hit anyone after the ban was a chain-smoking alcoholic Christian Brother commerce teacher we had in first year, get your debit side or credit side wrong when he fired a question at you and it was a whack of the leather. He disappeared about halfway through the year and was never heard of again.

Like I said before, back in primary before the ban it was open season on kids - metre sticks, thick perspex Perri rulers, 3rd class teacher usually used a leather but kept a cane in the press in reserve and used that a couple of times, he also claimed to keep a metal bar in there :eek:

DEFTLEFTHAND

We'd a wagon teaching us in the early 90s teaching in Primary school who wasn't too far removed from that type of stuff, she'd throw dusters at, grab ya by the collar or turn over your desk.

She once dug her Wedding ring into the side of my face, pushed it against the skin and started twisting her knuckle. I never told anyone, but that next morning my Dad dropped me to school, the only time he did so in my 14 years of education. He told me to wait in the car, about 15 mins later he came back out and told me to go to class.


She never said a cross word to me again after that. I've no idea how Dad found about it. Anytime I've tried to bring up the subject with him in the years since he fobs me off.

Snickers Man

fryup wrote: »

yep it was madness could have easily been an irish Hillsborough

When was there ever an "Irish Hillsborough"?

Go on? Name one. In any sport?

Nearest I can think of is Bloody Sunday (The one in 1920) and there were extenuating circumstances for that.

Hillsborough was the nadir of English (or you might say British given the Old Firm situation) soccer culture. As inevitable as it was tragic.

As Nick Hornby said in Fever Pitch "You can blame the polic..if you like, but in my opinion, to do so would be to miss the point"

And in mine. We don't have Hillsborough Disasters over here. We're just not like that.

Snickers Man

imme wrote: »

https://brandnewretro.ie/2017/02/08/citizens-of-dublin-1985/

Here are some Dubs from 35 years ago

Jeez I remember some of those people.
Yer mad wan who used to sing hymns and shout prayers at people outside the GPO was a fixture. The sort of loony you really miss when they're gone (as she is)

I remember that DJ fella from Trinity too. One of the notorious "Ents Clique" from the early 80s about whom I will say no more. The sort of person you don't miss when they move on.

And who could forget Horslips or The Brush?

the beer revolu

We had Self Aid.
Like Live Aid but Ireland got to keep the money. I've no idea where the money actually went, mind, but it was a great day out!

Brush opened, as I remember.
Elvis Costello, Boomtown Rats, Van Morrison, The Pogues, U2 and loads others most wouldn't know now - it was a great line up.

branie2

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

We'd a wagon teaching us in the early 90s teaching in Primary school who wasn't too far removed from that type of stuff, she'd throw dusters at, grab ya by the collar or turn over your desk.

She once dug her Wedding ring into the side of my face, pushed it against the skin and started twisting her knuckle. I never told anyone, but that next morning my Dad dropped me to school, the only time he did so in my 14 years of education. He told me to wait in the car, about 15 mins later he came back out and told me to go to class.


She never said a cross word to me again after that. I've no idea how Dad found about it. Anytime I've tried to bring up the subject with him in the years since he fobs me off.

Was this before corporal punishment was abolished in schools?

Sorry, I got that wrong, after it was banned.

Ubbquittious

the beer revolu wrote: »

Did they start making cheese?
We owe our farmhouse cheese industry to immigrants.

Yep. There was very little money to be had from it though. I remember using a curd knife back in the day when I was about 4

DEFTLEFTHAND

branie2 wrote: »

Was this before corporal punishment was abolished in schools?

Sorry, I got that wrong, after it was banned.

Afterwards.

1993.

L1011

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

We'd a wagon teaching us in the early 90s teaching in Primary school who wasn't too far removed from that type of stuff, she'd throw dusters at, grab ya by the collar or turn over your desk.

She once dug her Wedding ring into the side of my face, pushed it against the skin and started twisting her knuckle. I never told anyone, but that next morning my Dad dropped me to school, the only time he did so in my 14 years of education. He told me to wait in the car, about 15 mins later he came back out and told me to go to class.


She never said a cross word to me again after that. I've no idea how Dad found about it. Anytime I've tried to bring up the subject with him in the years since he fobs me off.

I had a teacher that would still do that from time to time in 1996/7. North Kildare?

branie2

She should have been sacked

L1011

branie2 wrote: »

She should have been sacked

Next to impossible.

Adding together everything I've been told about the teacher in my case she should never have been allowed teach at all. And this is why I'm extremely worried about allowing teachers to mark their own students leavings effectively this year....

A good teacher from that school had a big retirement party about 15 years after I finished, was paid tickets in and all (he didn't organise it, was someone else organising with a charge to pay for the room + get some crystal or whatever).

She was the only one of the teachers from my era that *didn't* turn up; and I later found out that one that did was dying of cancer at the time but still came because she wanted to.

YFlyer

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

The white Hiace van coming around once a fortnight and 3 films for a fiver, I think. And you had 2 weeks to watch them.

And you'd be lucky to come across one good film and two absolute dogs to watch because you paid for them so you had to watch them.

In Limerick we used to have the guy in the van selling the big bag of jellies. They used to nick the rejects from the jelly factory. Happy days.

DEFTLEFTHAND

L1011 wrote: »

I had a teacher that would still do that from time to time in 1996/7. North Kildare?

No, south Offaly. Dromakeenan NS. A couple of miles over the Tipperary border from Roscrea.

YFlyer

fryup wrote: »

didn't Galway UTD's have a euro fixture that had to be played in a field in connemara ?

There was some top match on some coastal area. Either connemara, Scottish highland or one of the North Sea Islands.

L1011

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

No, south Offaly. Dromakeenan NS. A couple of miles over the Tipperary border from Roscrea.

Was always unlikely to think there'd only be one mad bat that bad really.

Snickers Man

the beer revolu wrote: »

We had Self Aid.
Like Live Aid but Ireland got to keep the money. I've no idea where the money actually went, mind, but it was a great day out!

Brush opened, as I remember.
Elvis Costello, Boomtown Rats, Van Morrison, The Pogues, U2 and loads others most wouldn't know now - it was a great line up.

I remember it well. 1986, the day after the Trinity Ball. A moving effort to club together and end the scourge of youth unemployment in Ireland and prevent our children taking the emigrant boat.

Fantastic line up. As well as the above there was Rory Gallagher, Moving Hearts, Paul Brady, Chris Rea (Irish?) Freddie White, Christy Moore and the remnants of Thin Lizzy, minus Phil Lynott who had died a few months previously.

I watched all day.

Two weeks later I emigrated.
Gone for 10 years.
That was the 80s for ya.

georgina...c

Yes the 70s and 80s were a time in Ireland

fryup

fryup wrote: »

yep it was madness could have easily been an irish Hillsborough

Snickers Man wrote: »

When was there ever an "Irish Hillsborough"?

Go on? Name one. In any sport?

i said "could" have been, and yes it easily could have been ..look at the pictures, read the posts from people who were there that night

Edgware

fryup wrote: »

i said "could" have been, and yes it easily could have been ..look at the pictures, read the posts from people who were there that night

It could and indeed we were lucky in Croke Park too. Getting down the back of the Hill could be scary sometimes with conditions not unlike what happened at Ibrox

L1011

fryup wrote: »

didn't Galway UTD's have a euro fixture that had to be played in a field in connemara ?

Twice. Most recent was on a GAA pitch that wasn't actually owned by the GAA hence Rule 42 didn't apply.

https://www.balls.ie/football/the-time-a-small-gaa-ground-held-a-european-cup-winners-cup-match-301051

Hotblack Desiato

branie2 wrote: »

She should have been sacked

Shoud've been charged with assault.

Ash.J.Williams

L1011 wrote: »

I had a teacher that would still do that from time to time in 1996/7. North Kildare?

Begins with B?

Snickers Man

fryup wrote: »

i said "could" have been, and yes it easily could have been ..look at the pictures, read the posts from people who were there that night

But there wasn't, was there?

Look, I'm all in favour of improved ground safety and for reducing the crush conditions that existed in many Irish grounds, and probably still do. I remember the insanity of negotiating the level-crossing gates at Lansdowne Road at big matches and how I, for reasons of my own mental health if nothing else, would detour around to the East Side of the ground despite approaching from the north west just to avoid that mayhem. Putting a tunnel under the rail track is the best thing the IRFU/FAI ever did.

But with rugby crowds and Irish soccer crowds, this never resulted in tragedy (unless you can name one that I haven't heard of) because people took account of the conditions and didn't behave like idiots. Which was no guarantee against a disaster happening, but greatly reduced the chances.

IF fans had ever charged from one side of the old south terrace at Lansdowne Rd to attack fans at the other. (a la Heysel)
IF fans had ever charged for the exits at the old Havelock Square end.
IF fans had boorishly ignored stewards requests to step back and stop pushing while the level crossing gates were closed...

..there might have been a fatal tragedy of proportions that had been experienced elsewhere.

But there wasn't. And the sort of fans who tend to visit Lansdowne Road, and all the various FAI and GAA venues across the country, deserve credit for that.

ArnoldJRimmer

There was a match in maybe 1984 where there could very easily have been a crush on the Hill, I remember reading an article about it before. When I started going to matches, there were no barriers that I can remember in stadia I went to.

I was at the Smashing Pumpkins concert in the Point in 1996 where a girl died in a crush. I was on my way towards the front when the pushing started and I struggled to escape to the side. It was extremely scary that night as I have never in my life been in a room with so many drunken ignorant knuckle draggers who just wouldn't listen to the advice to move back

Accidents happen and police negligence takes place, its not that outlandish an argument to say that we could have had similar instances, particularly in the chaos of that Italian match

JupiterKid

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

There was a match in maybe 1984 where there could very easily have been a crush on the Hill, I remember reading an article about it before. When I started going to matches, there were no barriers that I can remember in stadia I went to.

I was at the Smashing Pumpkins concert in the Point in 1996 where a girl died in a crush. I was on my way towards the front when the pushing started and I struggled to escape to the side. It was extremely scary that night as I have never in my life been in a room with so many drunken ignorant knuckle draggers who just wouldn't listen to the advice to move back

Accidents happen and police negligence takes place, its not that outlandish an argument to say that we could have had similar instances, particularly in the chaos of that Italian match

I remember that incident very well. I was pretty into the Smashing Pumpkins’ music at the time - my third year in college - but for some reason wasn’t pushed on going to any gigs they did. The poor girl was only 17 IIRC and apparently it traumatised Billy Corgan and the other band members that they didn’t do any more gigs for quite some time after that.

Hangdogroad

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

I remember all the others (don't forget smoking, ear defenders comedian, a few fire ones, 'fit to catch that bus' and the unforgettable one about rubella with the nun shouting 'BA!!!!'...)

But nuclear safety? Really? A TV equivalent of Bas Beatha? They had Protect and Survive films in the UK but they were officially top secret until a nuclear war was imminent. You wouldn't just slip that sort of thing in to fill a space in an ad break on a random Tuesday evening.

Dont forget rabies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P0BA894Mos

L1011

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Begins with B?

T.

There was probably one in every school back then

doublejobbing 2

My main memories-

Leprachans

Shamrock

Guinness

Horses running through council estates

Toothless simpletons,

People with eyebrows on their cheeks

Badly tarmacced drives

Men in platform shoes being arrested for bombings

Lots of rocks

Beamish

I think part of our post Italia 90's renaissance really was a belief that we could be more. As if visionaries did think

"ders mar ta Oireland, den dis".

For Forks Sake

doublejobbing 2 wrote: »

My main memories-


Horses running through council estates

Toothless simpletons,

People with eyebrows on their cheeks

Badly tarmacced drives

Lots of rocks

That's Longford 2021 you've just described.

iamstop

My main memories of 80s Dublin:

The lights in town at Christmas
Switzers windows at Christmas too
Spending way more time outdoors than kids seem to these days. You'd know pretty much every kid in about a mile radius (grew up in Old Bawn, Tallaght) and you played big group games like Kick The Can, Red Rover, Crocodile Crocodile and Rounders. Those were the mixed games. The usually lads only games were stuff like Heads and Volleys, Lives, 5 A side and other football based games.
Lots of climbing trees. Especially during conker season.
Used to look forward to school trip and sports day. Was also swimming lessons once a week for a while.
The Ice Cream vans
The Milkman delivering bottles and you'd leave the empties for him to take back.
The paper boy coming around for collection. We used to get the Herald delivered.
I vaguely even remember a coal man doing the rounds during the winter.
I remember fireworks shows in the Phoenix Park that was somewhat synched up with a 2FM soundtrack.
Ah yeah, the radio station wars. You'd love spotting the FM104 or 2FM vehicles buzzing around. Sometimes you'd get the free car window stickers.
Beat on the Street, sponsored by 7UP who had Fido the dido.
Zig and Zag, Zuppy, Ted and the rest of the gang.
I remember when the Square was being built. And the Watergate park before it.
Adventure playgrounds.
"Help the Halloween Party" when you were looking for stuff to burn on the bonfire. Would start weeks before looking for rubbish and scraps of wood.
Camping up in Larch Hill and all the stories of the various Banshee's, Mountain Men and Werewolves etc.
Doing bag packing for the scouts to raise money for camping gear or trips etc.
Back sales in school.
I remember it was a big deal when the school announced an official tracksuit.
Yellow reg no passies.
If you burped you'd get Sixer Slugs.
You'd bags the arse of someone's drink and have no worries drinking the 'backwash'.

wavyhair

I grew up in the 80s in a seaside village and remember walking to and from the beach barefoot on hot bubbly tar after bathing in your vest and knickers!!

cameramonkey

wavyhair wrote: »

I grew up in the 80s in a seaside village and remember walking to and from the beach barefoot on hot bubbly tar after bathing in your vest and knickers!!

My vest and knickers?

wavyhair

cameramonkey wrote: »

My vest and knickers?

I know I'll have to give them back to you!!

saabsaab

wavyhair wrote: »

I know I'll have to give them back to you!!

You can keep them they won't fit me anymore!

wavyhair

saabsaab wrote: »

You can keep them they won't fit me anymore!

How many people's knickers did I have??!!

riclad

Look at reeling in the years on rte.ie it was not depressing, people watched rte,itv, bbc ,listened to pirate radio or bbc radio, for pop music,
there was no internet, no one was looking at smartphones or twiiter or getting bullied online.
if you had a job ,you could buy a house, rents were very low compared with now .If you got a job ,it was long term,eg no gig part time jobs working for an app.life was simple .
fashion in the 70s was awful, wide collars.flared jeans .
people smoked anywhere, office ,pubs, shops s .
if a woman in the civil service got married ,she had to retire .
no one worried about global warming .
everyone watched certain program,s ,top of the pop, s ,the late late ,
When mtv started it was a big deal, music video,s on everyday.
any singer that had a good video would have a hit .
people bought cassettes, before cds were invented.
a vcr cost like 200 pounds.
no one went to a pub or a cafe and stared at phones .
there were no trolls or online bullys .
i think it would be great to have an online radio station, pop80,
eg it just replays old pop music radio shows , the top 40 etc

Look at spotify, apple music ,etc theres so much music on release now
its hard to know where to start.
you dont miss what you do not have,
no one was worried cos theres no internet,or i cant play call of duty online
with voice chat.

saabsaab

riclad wrote: »

Look at reeling in the years on rte.ie it was not depressing, people watched rte,itv, bbc ,listened to pirate radio or bbc radio, for pop music,
there was no internet, no one was looking at smartphones or twiiter or getting bullied online.
if you had a job ,you could buy a house, rents were very low compared with now .If you got a job ,it was long term,eg no gig part time jobs working for an app.life was simple .
fashion in the 70s was awful, wide collars.flared jeans .
people smoked anywhere, office ,pubs, shops s .
if a woman in the civil service got married ,she had to retire .
no one worried about global warming .
everyone watched certain program,s ,top of the pop, s ,the late late ,
When mtv started it was a big deal, music video,s on everyday.
any singer that had a good video would have a hit .
people bought cassettes, before cds were invented.
a vcr cost like 200 pounds.
no one went to a pub or a cafe and stared at phones .
there were no trolls or online bullys .
i think it would be great to have an online radio station, pop80,
eg it just replays old pop music radio shows , the top 40 etc

Look at spotify, apple music ,etc theres so much music on release now
its hard to know where to start.
you dont miss what you do not have,
no one was worried cos theres no internet,or i cant play call of duty online
with voice chat.

Remember all that the 70s the decade that taste forgot so true. The car being broken into at night to steal the radio! The first VCR I had was around 300 pounds! but you could tape TV.